A very pleasing miniature marble machine created from scratch by Dutch artist Daniel de Bruin out of 0.6mm wire for a 5mm ball bearing.
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Cracking
atThe precisely engineered copper marble runs of Southampton based LittleBallCreations inspired by the quirky cascade mechanisms of Wallace and Gromit – some gravity driven, others motorised or aided by an Archimedes screw.
More here.
Got six minutes to spare?
Of course you do.
Go full screen and enjoy the fruit of many hours of construction by Scott’s Marble Runs – a lone marble rolls a long, long track starting outside Scott’s house, wending its way inside via multiple twists and turns.
Cold Comfort
atHåkon Anton Fagerås is a #Norwegian #sculptor based in #Italy, and here you can watch him working on a #marble# pillow which creates a lovely juxtaposition in materials. The pillow was part of his 'Down' series, which you can see on his website. pic.twitter.com/qhtzNmwGfG
— Hole & Corner (@Hole_and_Corner) September 26, 2018
Extraordinarily realistic ‘pillows’ hewn from solid marble with a pneumatic hammer and other carving tools by Norwegian sculptor Håkon Anton Fagerås.
More of his work here.
Images from ‘Movimento’ by Francesca Piqueras (also known for her photographs of rusting shipwrecks) featuring the scarred and sheared-off mountainsides of Carrara in Tuscany – extensively quarried for their marble since the time of the Etruscans.
Related: White Gold
A pleasing, all-too-short short by motion design studio Mr Kaplan exploring the physics defying workings of a fictional Rube Goldberg/Heath Robinson machine.
White Gold
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The Apuan Alps in Northern Italy – home to a ‘surreal abundance’ of pristine white marble.
Every year at the Canalgrande quarry, 65,000 tonnes of it are extracted, worth around 10 million euro. To wit:
Sit on a beach in one of the nearby towns (Forte dei Marmi, Viareggio), and you appear to be looking up at snow-covered peaks. But it is snow that does not melt, that is not seasonal. Michelangelo sculpted most of his statues from this stone, and he was so obsessed with the region that he used to fantasize about carving an entire white mountain right where it stood.
READ ON: The Majestic Marble Quarries Of Northern Italy (Sam Anderson, The Story Institute)
Stone Cold
atEars all helixed-up?
You’ll be for the next adornment trend, so.
Lip marbling.
Fashion blogger Suuz Brouwer shows how it’s done.
Top Heavy
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The Identity Collection: dresses donated by friends and then hewn from blocks of Carrera marble (from which Michaelangelo carved his David) by Scottish sculptor Alasdair Thompson.
More here.
‘Little Manhattan‘ – an incredibly detailed 2.5 ton marble model of NYC currently on display at the David Zwirner gallery.